Stream 1. Improving Patient Care
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1.a Improving Self Care
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- Improving patient and carer capacity to self-manage
- Using technology enhancements to improve self care
- Empowering patients through training and education
- Adapting staff roles to support patients to self-care
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1.b Improving the Continuum of Care
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- Working with primary care to prevent or reduce hospital stays
- Improving care in the community for those with chronic conditions
- Improving patient selection for chronic care programs
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1c Improving Patient Choices: Alternatives to Acute Hospital Care
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- Improving care with Hospital in The Home (or Nursing Home)
- Improving safety at home for aged and vulnerable patients
- Improving integration of community services to support End of Life care at home
- Using Medihotels to reduce acute length of stay
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1.d Partnering with consumers to improve patient care
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- Improving patient and carer involvement in service planning
- Improving responses to complaints and concerns
- Learning from patient feedback systems
- Sharing lessons from accreditation standard- Partnering with Consumers
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Stream 2. Improving Performance
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2.a Reducing clinical variation in high volume high cost DRGs
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- Improving surgical and acute medical patient pathways
- Using ’Care Bundles’ to reduce variation in care
- Increasing use of checklists and reviews
- Reducing variation in use of prosthetics, devices and drugs
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2.b Reducing unplanned admissions
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- Decreasing acute admissions through improved remote support
- Improving response with rapid referral and assessment clinics
- Improving outcomes for frequent attenders with specialist units and services
- Improving access and uptake of patient support services post discharge
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2.c Improving efficiency at service “bottlenecks”
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- Improving throughput in imaging services
- Improving the surgical journey
- Improving unitisation of high-volume procedure areas
- Reducing delays in the patient journey
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2.d Improving Patient Safety
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- Improving management response to higher than expected mortality rate reports
- Using CHADx to improve patient safety
- Improving management of the deteriorating patient
- Re-designing services to prevent misadventures
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Stream 3. Preparing for the Future
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3.a Improving non- clinical services
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- Improving efficiency of corporate services
- Improving value of purchasing goods and contact services
- Improving HR management -Reducing turnover, sick leave and OH&S
- Increasing sustainability: waste, water, power and facilities
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3.b Improving efficiency with external partnerships
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- Increasing service capacity with Public Private Partnerships
- Outsourcing of high capital services – imaging, radiotherapy
- Improving efficiency with contestability
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3.c Improving Source Data for Counting, Coding and Costing
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- Improving measurement of outpatient activity
- Improving recognition of care-type changes
- Improving the feedback loop between coder and clinicians
- Improving feeder systems for more accurate cost allocations
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3 d Developing High Performing Organisations
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- Building High Performing Organisations to Improve Clinical Outcomes
- Improving Clinical Engagement
- Developing leadership models for healthcare
- Improving orientation and training programs
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Stream 4. Getting Traction with Roundtable Reports
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These interactive workshops are designed help you use the resources that are available to all members of the Health Roundtable on the website. The presenters will assist you to locate and interpret your data and illustrate examples with your questions.
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4a Improving understanding of ABF Planning and Costing
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Chris O’Gorman and Paul White
- ABF Planning Tool – What activity can you afford?
- Where to make improvements
- Costing data – benchmarking opportunities: Compare your costs with peers
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4.b Improving Understanding of Health Roundtable Core Reports
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Alex Carrasco and Wojciech Korczynski
- Where to find your organisations data: What should I look at?
- How to use data to drive improvements
- Where to get help
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4.c Reducing time for answers- Online Data Tools
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Lisa Brady and Aman Dayal
- Customised Roundtable Reporting System (AORTA)
- Online healthcare evaluation system (A-HED)
- IHB International Hospital Benchmarking
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4.d Improvement Groups – special interest data reports
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Bernie Mullin, Rohan Cattell
- End of Life Care – Mortality Reports
- Nursing Report
- Maternity
- Mental Health
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